JURIST Senior Editor Leigh Argentieri Coogan, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Class of 2014, discusses the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Governor Corbett’s implementation of Healthy PA …After the US Supreme Court ruled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) (PDF) requirement for all states to expand Medicaid unconstitutional, states faced [...]
The International Criminal Court on Thursday granted the prosecution’s request to subpoena eight Kenyan witnesses in the trial of Kenyan Vice President William Ruto . The witnesses are no longer cooperating and are not willing to testify against Ruto, which caused the court to urge the government of Kenya to serve the witnesses with subpoenas [...]
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci on Thursday called on the nation’s parliament to vote on creating a European Union-backed tribunal to investigate allegations of harvesting organs from dead Serbs during the 1990s Balkans war. In a press release , Thaci stated, “although the issue is completely unfair and offensive to the state of Kosovo, the [...]
The Ukrainian government urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday to open an investigation into any serious international crimes committed within the territory from late 2013 to early 2014. The possible crimes committed within Ukraine include acts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Earlier this year the Ukrainian parliament began to ask [...]
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the emails of Michael Mann, a former University of Virginia climatologist and professor, are exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act . Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli subpoenaed university records related to Mann’s research in attempting to find misuse of public funds. The [...]
A Chinese court on Friday convicted activists with ties to the New Citizens Movement on the grounds of gathering a mob to disturb the public. The New Citizens Movement is a grass-roots organization which seeks to draw attention to matters of public concern, including equal access to education and disclosure of Chinese officials’ personal assets, [...]
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that employers cannot discriminate against pregnant women under Florida state law. The court held that the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 (FCRA) , which makes it “an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate based on an individual,” includes discrimination based on pregnancy, which is a natural [...]
The Supreme Court of The Netherlands on Friday banned an online group, “Martijn,” that advocates for the legalization of pedophilia. The court held that the dangers of pedophilia are too great to allow the group to continue. This is because, the court reasoned, children are particularly vulnerable, and the protections they require justifies using the [...]
The chief investigator from the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Thursday appealed to the UN Security Council to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes against humanity. The call to act came as a result of February’s report in which [...]
Russia, Ukraine, the US and the EU on Thursday issued a joint statement on the situation in Ukraine after a Ukrainian military base was attacked in an act of increasing violence between government troops and pro-Russia militias. The statement promises amnesty “to protesters and to those who have left buildings and other public places and [...]
